Comments on: Meet Portland Trail Blazers GM Kevin Pritchard, the NBA’s Latest Mastermind http://www.emptythebench.com/2008/07/27/meet-portland-trail-blazers-gm-kevin-pritchard-the-nbas-latest-mastermind/ The season's over. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:25:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew Thell http://www.emptythebench.com/2008/07/27/meet-portland-trail-blazers-gm-kevin-pritchard-the-nbas-latest-mastermind/comment-page-1/#comment-16817 Andrew Thell Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:27:12 +0000 http://www.emptythebench.com/2008/07/27/meet-portland-trail-blazers-gm-kevin-pritchard-the-nbas-latest-mastermind/#comment-16817 Trading Tyrus Thomas for LaMarcus Aldridge on draft night? Trading Randy Foye for Brandon Roy on draft night? Strokes of genius. Trading Tyrus Thomas for LaMarcus Aldridge on draft night? Trading Randy Foye for Brandon Roy on draft night?

Strokes of genius.

]]> By: Joe Loco http://www.emptythebench.com/2008/07/27/meet-portland-trail-blazers-gm-kevin-pritchard-the-nbas-latest-mastermind/comment-page-1/#comment-16807 Joe Loco Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:01:56 +0000 http://www.emptythebench.com/2008/07/27/meet-portland-trail-blazers-gm-kevin-pritchard-the-nbas-latest-mastermind/#comment-16807 Another puff piece over the latest Kiki Vandeweghe. The previous GMs did indeed "set the wheels in motion," but it was by making a decade's worth of stupid deals. Pritchard has inherited a treasure chest of expiring deals and lottery picks, and this makes him a genius? It's true you can only play the cards you're dealt, but let's see him win something and maintain it before we all go as gaga as those oh-so-needy Blazers fans. Another puff piece over the latest Kiki Vandeweghe. The previous GMs did indeed “set the wheels in motion,” but it was by making a decade’s worth of stupid deals. Pritchard has inherited a treasure chest of expiring deals and lottery picks, and this makes him a genius? It’s true you can only play the cards you’re dealt, but let’s see him win something and maintain it before we all go as gaga as those oh-so-needy Blazers fans.

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